Crypto Week Was the Worst Art Exhibit in Years
Congress showed that financial regulation is like a museum: It’s hard to tell the bogus from the genius.
Cheap cardboard or work of art?
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The buying and selling of art is an expensive, confusing and intimidating business, but at its heart lies a simple truth: A painting is worth exactly as much as somebody is willing to pay for it. Same goes for sculpture, photographs, ceramics, installations, conceptual art, jewelry and bananas. (But not NFTs, which are worthless no matter how much some clown was willing to pay for it.)